FMJ's First Cabinet Grow - C99 x Apollo 11 from seed

You still around FullMetalJacket?

I am still around just moved to LV in Oct so been so busy. I have been luring and am about 15 days into flower w/ an AK47 grow in my cabinet.

I will post some pics just continue this thread becaue everything has pretty much started the same as the a11 grow. Now that i have time i will make regular pic updates.

First grow i gave to a friend because i didnt want to travel w/ a pound of weed across the country for my move with a cab that smells like weed.

But I have arrived here in Vegas and on 10/31 I began germinating ak47 from serious seeds.

6/6 germinated. Used Lucas formula 0-8-16 to veg and ph at 5.8.

So I vegged the two right plants under 190 Watt 8 bulb 2' T5 with the blue spectrum. The 4 left plants were under a 600W MH. Notice the siz difference. This pic was at 3 weeks.



Another pic 3 weeks in..



Not happy with the growth of the t5 I added the two smaller plants to the 31 gallon res with the other 4. It helps i have 3 extra res's so I can quickly user different lids with diff hole configs. Here are the 6 plants 3 weeks in under the 600 W MH.


3.5 weeks in



4 weeks in.. still 6 plants I have been trimming alot along the way. I probably have trimmed at least the same amount that the plants currently have.

took clones at 30 days veg...notice how i numbered them because i dont know my males yet. I took 2 clones from each plant.

1 hour old


1 days later they start to pop up...



33 days from germ i force flower w/ all 6. I see some presex but want to be sure...



40 days from germ , 7 day of flower, i identify 3 males and get rid of them. Root systems are huge but my large res helped in not having them be tangled. Unfortunaley my 3 females were my smallest. I put up a chicken wire sreen 18" and filled in allowed the 3 plants to grow into it and cut everything below the screen.

I am now at day 18 of 12/12. Cabinet handels the smell beautifully. When the door is open though the smell is getting strong.

I killed the male clones and have the 5 remaining clones vegging under the T5 in my veg chamber. Getting ready to germ som DJ Shorts blueberry soon.

I will get better pics this weeks when the HPS isnt on. Glad to be back online.

Should I be trimming some of the leaves ? What should i trim, 1/2 them? Just the large ones blocking light from buds? Do buds take in light?

TY

Holly hell FMJ .. Im glad your back man!

i thought you died! this is great. i was still subscribed in the slim hope that you would return. and my patience paid off. hats off you FMJ sir!

From my understanding buds do NOT absorb light but the leaves surrounding the buds do.

Wow. I'm impressed...

Started a new thread to finish out the AK47 flower and harvest. Link is in my sig. Here are some pics...but im shutting down this thread...

Holy hell, your journal just taught me so much about all the questions about a setup i'm going to have very similar to yours. Where is your new journal at? Subscribed

Thanks for all the helpful info. It's perfect!!!

Welcome to Vegas!!!

On to AK